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the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?
the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments have been standard regulation for medical laboratories in the United States since 1988?
the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24, 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893?
until 1988, a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married?
in 1988 the Greek passenger ferry, City of Poros, was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the Abu Nidal Organisation which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured?
a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake?
Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988?
Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998?
Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988?
1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955?

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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year that started on a Friday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits (11).

Events

January

January 1 – The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
January 1 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

January 8 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 140.58 points, or 6.85%, to close at 1,911.31 in a mini-crash.
January 13 – Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo dies in Taipei; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui becomes president.
January 15 – In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
January 25 – U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
January 29 – The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.

February

February 3 – The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
February 12 – Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
February 17 – A bomb explodes outside of the First National Bank in Oshakati, Namibia, killing 27 and injuring 70 others.
February 17 – U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (he is later killed by his captors).
February 24 – Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.
February 29 – A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in World War II deportations.

March

March 7 – Operation Flavius: The Special Air Service fatally shoots 3 unarmed Provisional Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
March 8 – Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
March 8 – U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
March 13 – Gallaudet University, a Deaf university in Washington D.C. elects Dr. I King Jordan as the first Deaf president in its history. This event is a turning point in the Deaf civil rights movement.
March 16 – The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
March 16 – First RepublicBank of Texas fails and enters FDIC receivership, the largest FDIC assisted bank failure in history.
March 16 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
March 17 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143.
March 17 – Eritrean War of Independence – Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF).
March 19 – Corporals killings: British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA.
March 20 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
March 24 – An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
March 25 – The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
March 26 – U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
March 29 – African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.

April

The Iranian Frigate, IS Alvand, attacked by US Navy forces during Operation Praying Mantis.

April 4 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
April 5 – Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
April 10 – The comic strip FoxTrot débuts.
April 10 – The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
April 10 – The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
April 11 – The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins nine Oscars.
April 12 – Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
April 14 – In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.
April 16 – Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.
April 16 – In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
April 18 – The United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
April 25 – In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
April 28 – Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight, killing 1 person.
April 30 – World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.
April 30 – Celine Dion wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland with the song Ne partez pas sans moi.

May

May 4 – PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport.
May 14 – Bus collision near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY 30 years prior.
May 14 – Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1–0 at Wembley. The southwest Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies including 17 league titles.
May 15 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than 8 years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
May 16 – A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16 – California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
May 24 – Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
May 27 – Microsoft releases Windows 2.1
May 31 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.

June

June 5 – The first National Cancer Survivors Day is held.
June 6 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom strips jockey Lester Piggott of his Order of the British Empire, following his jailing for tax irregularities.
June 11 – The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
June 11 – Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
June 25 – The Netherlands defeats the Soviet Union 2–0 to win Euro 88.
June 26 – Air France Flight 296 crashes into the tops of trees beyond the runway on a demonstration flight at Habsheim, France; 3 passengers are killed.
June 28 – Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later).
June 29 – Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
June 30 – Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates 4 bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.

July

July 3 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
July 3 – Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by a missile launched from the USS Vincennes.
July 6 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners.
July 6 – The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York–area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in the American Northeast.
July 14 – Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
July 20 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U.S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.
July 31 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.

August

Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini, leader of Pakistani Shia Muslims, is killed in Peshawar.
August 5 – The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
August 6–7 – Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action which takes place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.
August 8 – 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
August 14 – Enzo Ferrari, founder of the Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari, dies at the age of 90, after a long illness.
August 17 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
August 18 – The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates George H.W. Bush for President and Dan Quayle for Vice President of the United States of America.
August 19 – A truce begins in the Iran–Iraq War.
August 20 – The Iran–Iraq War ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
August 25 – A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.
August 26 – Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.
August 28 – Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

September

September 5 – With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States' largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
September 11 – In Estonia, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
September 17 – October 2 – The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.
September 22 – The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea (see also July 6).
September 24–26 – Large, militant protests against the 1988 World Bank and IMF meetings take place in West Berlin.
September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

October

October 5 – Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
October 5 – Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite which sought to renew his mandate.
October 5 – In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960. His Democratic opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark is overwhelmingly positive.
October 11 – Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
October 12 – Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
October 13 – In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
October 15 – Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game 1 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of 5–4.
October 19 – The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
October 23 – Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan.
October 27 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
October 28 – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the drug.
October 29 – Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had accumulated.
October 30 – Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.^[1]
October 30 – Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia draws to a close.

November

November 1 – In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office.
November 3–5: Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate against former president Chun Doo Hwan.
November 8 – United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
November 11 – In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
November 13 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
November 15 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
November 15 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253–46.
November 15 – The very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
November 16 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
November 16 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections are held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
November 18 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
November 21 – Canadian federal election, 1988: Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada win a second majority government.
November 21 – Ted Turner officially buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
November 22 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
November 23 – Former Korean president Chun Doo Hwan publicly apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.
November 24 – The popular American cult television comedy Mystery Science Theater 3000 makes its debut on KTMA.
November 30 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.

December

December 1 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari takes office as President of Mexico.
December 2 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
December 2 – A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.
December 7 – In Armenia, an earthquake (6.9 on the Richter scale) kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
December 7 – Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.
December 9 – The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
December 12 – The Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.
December 16 – Perennial U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is convicted of mail fraud.
December 20 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
December 21 – Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be Libyans.
December 22 – Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.

Undated

TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed.
Zebra mussels are found in the Great lakes.
The U.S. Drought of 1988 causes big crop damage in many states, impacts many portions of the United States and causes around $60 billion in damage. Multiple regions suffer in the conditions. Heat waves cause 4,800 to 17,000 deaths while scorching many areas of the United States during 1988.

Ongoing

**1988 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1988 MCMLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2741
Armenian calendar	1437 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar	144 – 145
Bengali calendar	1395
Berber calendar	2938
Buddhist calendar	2532
Burmese calendar	1350
Byzantine calendar	7496 – 7497
Chinese calendar	丁卯年十一月十二日 (4624/4684-11-12) — to — 戊辰年十一月廿三日 (4625/4685-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1704 – 1705
Ethiopian calendar	1980 – 1981
Hebrew calendar	5748 – 5749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2043 – 2044
- Shaka Samvat	1910 – 1911
- Kali Yuga	5089 – 5090
Holocene calendar	11988
Iranian calendar	1366 – 1367
Islamic calendar	1408 – 1409
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 63 (昭和63年)
Korean calendar	4321
Thai solar calendar	2531
Unix time	567993600 – 599615999

Births

January

January 4 – Nabila Jamshed, Indian author
January 5 – Pauline, French singer
January 7 – Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
January 7 – Haley Bennett, American Actress and Singer
January 7 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
January 8 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer
January 9 – Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress
January 9 – Glyn Wise, Welsh television/radio personality – runner-up, Big Brother 2006
January 10 – Michael Mcilorum, English rugby league player
January 10 – Wu Si Xuan, Taiwanese singer
January 12 – Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
January 12 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
January 13 – Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess player
January 14 – Mikalah Gordon, American television personality
January 16 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
January 19 – Danny Haynes, English footballer
January 22 – Greg Oden, American basketball player
January 24 – Jade Ewen, English singer
January 25 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
January 27 – Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
January 29 – Owen Garvan, Irish footballer
January 29 – Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish footballer

February

February 3 – Cho Kyuhyun, Korean singer (Super Junior)
February 4 – Carly Patterson, American gymnast
February 4 – Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
February 6 – Bailey Hanks, American actress
February 7 – Ai Kago, Japanese singer
February 7 – Matthew Stafford, American football player
February 8 – Ryan Pinkston, American actor
February 11 – Li Chun, Chinese singer
February 12 – Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie, Romanian gymnast
February 13 – Aston Merrygold, English singer, member of boy band JLS
February 14 – Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of Star Academy France 7
February 18 – Andie Valentino, American nude model
February 18 – Mark Davies, English footballer
February 18 – Shane Lyons, American actor
February 18 – Maiara Walsh, Brazilian-American actress
February 18 – Max, Korean singer (TVXQ)
February 19 – Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
February 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
February 25 – Rúrik Gíslason, Icelandic footballer
February 26 – David Williams, Australian soccer player
February 27 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
February 29 – Lena Gercke, German nudist model

March

March 1 – Melissandre Fuentes, Andorra figure skater
March 1 – Katija Pevec, American actress
March 2 – Kathryn Blair, daughter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
March 2 – Vito Mannone, Italian footballer
March 2 – Kate Alexa, Australian singer
March 3 – Timur Gareev, Asian chess player
March 3 – Rafael Munoz Perez, Spanish swimmer
March 4 – Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol
March 6 – Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
March 6 – Lee Seung-Hoon, South Korean speed skater
March 10 – Ivan Rakitic, Croatian and Swiss footballer
March 15 – Rebecca Moore, Miss Alabama USA
March 21 – Lee Cattermole, English footballer
March 21 – Pat McCabe, Australian rugby union player
March 25 – Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
March 27 – Brenda Song, Korean American actress
March 28 – Lacey Turner, English actress
March 31 – Hogan Ephraim, English football player

April

April 3 – Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
April 5 – Daniela Luján, Mexican actress
April 5 – Asumi Nakata, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
April 6 – Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
April 6 – Mike Bailey, British actor
April 8 – Philip Dowling, British actor
April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
April 10 – Özgürcan Özcan, Turkish footballer
April 13 – Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
April 13 – Kallie Flynn Childress, American actress
April 15 – Emily Parr, 2007 UK Big Brother contestant
April 21 – Mia Permanto, Finnish pop singer and radio host (d. 2008)
April 23 – Erica Mer, American actress
April 25 – Sara Paxton, American actress
April 26 – Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (d. 2006)
April 28 – Ji-Yai Shin, South Korean golfer
April 29 – Jonathan Toews, Canadian hockey player
April 29 – Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder
April 29 – Younha, Korean born singer

May

May 1 – Kristopher Tate, American businessman
May 1 – Darryl Knights, English footballer
May 5 – Adele, English singer
May 5 – Jessica Dubroff, American student pilot (d. 1996)
May 5 – Brooke Hogan, American reality star and singer
May 5 – Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer
May 12 – Marky Cielo, Philippine actor (d. 2008)
May 13 – Casey Donovan, Australian Idol 2004 singer
May 17 – Nikki Reed, American actress
May 18 – Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor, TaeYang South Korean singer forBigBang
May 19 – Lily Cole, English supermodel
May 23 – Christian Lorentzen, British heir
May 23 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer
May 24 – Billy Gilman, American singer
May 24 – Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go player
May 25 – Adrián González, Spanish footballer
May 25 – Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
May 27 – Scott McGregor, English musician
May 28 – Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
May 28 – Meisa Kuroki, Japanese actress
May 29 – Steve Mason (ice hockey), Canadian hockey player

June

June 1 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
June 2 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
June 2 – Ayaka Saito, Japanese voice actor
June 7 – Milan Lučić, Canadian ice Hockey Player
June 7 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
June 7 – Godwin Antwi, Ghana footballer
June 9 – Mae Whitman, American actress
June 11 – Gakky, Japanese model/actress
June 17 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
June 17 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
June 20 – Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
June 21 – Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball player
June 21 – Alejandro Ramirez, Costa Rica chess player
June 21 – Thaddeus Young, American basketball player
June 22 – Kieran Lee, English footballer
June 23 – Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
June 23 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
June 24 – Micah Richards, English footballer
June 24 – Nichkhun Horvejkul, Thai-Chinese singer active in Korea (2PM)
June 25 – Amanda Dowler, British murder victim
June 26 – Amanda and Sam Marchant, 2007 UK Big Brother contestants
June 27 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
June 28 – Lacey Schwimmer, American ballroom dancer
June 30 – Sean Marquette, American actor

July

July 1 – Evan Ellingson, American actor
July 1 – Joseph Groarke, British taekwondo expert
July 4 – Angelique Boyer, Mexican actress
July 6 – Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Canadian actress
July 8 – Miguel Roque Farrero, Spanish footballer
July 12 – Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner, season 3
July 12 – Inbee Park, South Korean golfer
July 17 – Summer Bishil, American actress
July 22 – Constantin, Prince of Nassau
July 23 – Paul Anderson, English footballer
July 25 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
July 25 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
July 28 – Ayla Brown, American singer and basketball player
July 30 – Lara Jean Marshall, actress and recording artist
July 31 – Krystal Meyers, American Christian singer/songwriter/musician

August

August 4 – Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
August 5 – Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
August 5 – Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
August 6 – Andrew Lane, American Politician
August 7 – Chris "Beanie" Wells, American football player
August 8 – Princess Beatrice of York
August 8 – Flavia Bujor, French writer
August 8 – Jake Goldsbie, Canadian actor
August 8 – Jeff Weise, American murderer (d. 2005)
August 11 – Patrick Mills, Australian basketball player
August 12 – Jose Tabata, Venezuelan baseball player
August 12 – Leah Pipes, American actress
August 13 – Ryan Villopoto, American Motocross Racer
August 16 – Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan footballer
August 16 – Rumer Willis, American actress
August 17 – Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
August 17 – Brady Corbet, American actor
August 17 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress
August 18 – G-Dragon, Leader of Korean band, Big Bang
August 18 – Jack Hobbs, English footballer
August 19 – Travis Tedford, American actor
August 24 – Rupert Grint, English actor
August 25 – Angela Park, Brazilian golfer
August 25 – Alexandra Burke, English singer
August 25 – Raymond Quinn, English singer and actor
August 26 – Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este
August 26 – Evan Ross, American actor
August 27 – Alexa Vega, American actress
August 28 – Ray Jones, English football player (d. 2007)
August 30 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer
August 30 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player

September

September 5 – Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
September 9 – Sana Saeed, Indian actress
September 10 – Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
September 11 – Angie Diaz, Australian actress
September 15 – Chelsea Staub, American actress and singer
September 16 – Teddy Geiger, American singer
September 16 – Tempest Smith, American religious discrimination victim (d. 2001)
September 17 – Candice Swanepoel, South African model
September 18 – Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
September 19 – Katie Bowden, American actress
September 20 – Aura Andreea Munteanu, Romanian gymnast
September 22 – Bethany Dillon, Christian contemporary music singer/songwriter & Qwanell Mosley, American R&B singer (member of the group Day26)
September 23 – Bryan Hearne, American actor and rapper
September 23 – Juan Martin del Potro, Argentine tennis player
September 24 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
September 29 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player

October

October 1 – Luca Caputi, Canadian ice hockey player
October 1 – Cariba Heine, Australian actress and performer
October 3 – Tadhg Kelly, American actor
October 4 – Derrick Rose, American Basketball Player
October 5 – Bobby Edner, American actor
October 5 – Meagen Nay, Australian Olympic Swimmer
October 6 – Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
October 7 – Stacy DuPree, American musician
October 7 – Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
October 12 – Jack O'Donnell, Irish comic
October 13 – Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
October 14 – Max Thieriot, American actor
October 15 – Aleksandra Szutenberg, Polish gymnast
October 19 – Carly Janiga, American gymnast
October 20 – Adam Butcher, Canadian actor
October 20 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
October 25 – Mandi Lampi, Finnish singer and actress (d. 2008)
October 25 – Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
October 28 – Devon Murray, Irish actor

November

November 1 – Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
November 1 – Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
November 2 – Lindze Letherman, American actress
November 3 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor
November 5 – Enchong Dee, Filipino actor
November 6 – Emma Stone, American actress
November 7 – Georg Margreitter, Austrian footballer
November 8 – Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
November 9 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress and singer
November 11 – Alexandra Kyle, American actress
November 13 – Stephen Pollard, American musician
November 15 – Zena Grey, American actress
November 15 – Nikolas Besagno, American footballer
November 19 – Patrick Kane, American professional hockey player
November 26 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model
November 28 – Scarlett Pomers, American actress

December

December 1 – Ashley Monique Clark, actress
December 2 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
December 2 – Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
December 3 – Kevin Alexander Clark, American actor and drummer
December 4 – Lisa Ingildeeva, Russian gymnast
December 5 – Ross Bagley, American actor
December 6 – Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian musician
December 7 – Emily Browning, Australian actress
December 14 – Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
December 14 – Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player
December 15 – Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
December 15 – Emily Head, English actress
December 16 – Anna Popplewell, English actress
December 16 – Jacob Lensky, Canadian footballer
December 19 – Victoria Ribeiro, British heir
December 22 – Eddy Vilard, Mexican actor
December 23 – Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
December 24 – Piyush Chawla, Indian cricketer
December 27 – Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore)
December 29 – Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
December 30 – Leon Jackson, Scottish singer and X Factor winner 2007

Unknown dates

Delanie Fitzpatrick, American actress
Ateqeh Rajabi, Iranian teenage offender (executed 2004)
Laura Ross, American chess player
Everlyn Sampi, Australian actor
20Q, Artificial intelligence

For musicians born in 1988, see 1988 in music.

Deaths

January–February

Richard Feynman

January 1 – Margot Bryant, British actress (b. 1897)
January 2 – Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
January 5 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
January 6 – L. P. Davies, English novelist (b. 1914)
January 7 – Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
January 11 – Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912)
January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat (b. 1903)
January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
January 14 – Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
January 16 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
January 20 – Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902)
January 22 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
January 25 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1900)
January 28 – Klaus Fuchs, German-born physicist and spy (b. 1911)
February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
February 5 – Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British film producer (b. 1902)
February 11 – Marion Crawford, English nanny for Princess Elizabeth (b. 1909)
February 13 – Ron Embleton, British comics artist and illustrator (b. 1930)
February 13 – Léon Goossens. British oboist (b. 1897)
February 14 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
February 19 – René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
February 19 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
February 25 – Kurt Mahler, German born Australian mathematician (b. 1903)

March–April

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

William McMahon

Kenneth Williams

March 1 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
March 3 – Lois Wilson, American actress (b. 1894)
March 5 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
March 7 – Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
March 7 – Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (b. 1909)
March 7 – Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1904)
March 8 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
March 8 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
March 10 – Glenn Cunningham, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
March 10 – Andy Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
March 13 – Olive Carey, American actress (b. 1896)
March 13 – John Holmes, American pornographic actor (b. 1944)
March 20 – Gil Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
March 20 – Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor (b. 1908)
March 22 – Lester Rawlins, American stage and screen director (b. 1924)
March 25 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
March 31 – Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
April 1 – Jim Jordan, radio show, classic old time radio (b. 1896)
April 3 – Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
April 6 – John Clements, British actor (b. 1910)
April 11 – Hermann Graf, German fighter ace (d. 1912)
April 11 – Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1910)
April 12 – Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b. 1891)
April 12 – Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
April 15 – Kenneth Williams, British actor and raconteur (b. 1926)
April 17 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (b. 1900)
April 17 – Eva Novak, American actress (b. 1898)
April 18 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
April 21 – I.A.L. Diamond, American screenwriter (b. 1920)
April 22 – Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
April 23 – Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
April 26 – James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
April 26 – Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
April 27 – David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)

May–June

Willem Drees

May 3 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
May 5 – George Rose, English actor (b. 1920)
May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b. 1907)
May 10 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
May 10 – Ciaran Bourke, member of The Dubliners (b. 1935)
May 11 – Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
May 12 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
May 14 – Willem Drees, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister and Centenarian (b. 1886)
May 15 – Andrew Duggan, American actor (b. 1923)
May 15 – Greta Nissen, Norwegian-born actress (b. 1905)
May 16 – Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)
May 18 – Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
May 21 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
May 23 – Aya Kitō, Japanese Writer (b. 1962)
May 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
May 27 – Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
May 30 – Ella Raines, American actress (b. 1920)
June 8 – Eli Mintz, American actor (b. 1904)
June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American writer (b. 1908)
June 16 – Kim Milford, American actor and singer (b. 1951)
June 18 – Wilford Leach, American theater director (b. 1929)
June 22 – Dennis Day, Irish-American singer and radio and television personality (b. 1916)
June 25 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)

July–August

Enzo Ferrari

July 3 – Gabriel Dell, American actor (b. 1919)
July 4 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
July 8 – Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film director (b. 1908)
July 17 – Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
July 18 – Nico, singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress and Warhol socialite (b. 1938)
July 21 – Jack Clark, American television personality and game show host (b. 1921)
July 25 – Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
July 27 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
July 31 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
August 1 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (b. 1901)
August 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet (b. 1938)
August 5 – Colin Higgins, American film director (b. 1941)
August 5 – Ralph Meeker, American actor (b. 1920)
August 8 – Félix Leclerc, French-Canadian poet & singer (b. 1914)
August 8 – Alan Napier, American actor (b. 1903)
August 9 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
August 9 – Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
August 10 – Adela Rogers St. Johns, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1893)
August 11 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
August 12 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American musician/graffiti painter (b. 1960)
August 14 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
August 17 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
August 17 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (b. 1924)
August 21 – Ray Eames, American artist, designer, and filmmaker (b. 1912)
August 24 – Leonard Frey, American actor (b. 1938)
August 27 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
August 27 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
August 28 – Hazel Dawn, American actress (b. 1891)

September–October

Luis Walter Alvarez

Charles Hawtrey

September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
September 5 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
September 6 – Harold Rosson, American cinematographer (b. 1895)
September 12 – Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr. Men series (b. 1935)
September 16 – Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1893)
September 18 – Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian Azari poet (b. 1906)
September 20 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (b. 1934)
September 21 – Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
September 21 – Henry Koster, German-born film director (b. 1905)
September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
September 28 – Ethel Grandin, American actress (b. 1894)
October 1 – Lucien Ballard, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
October 2 – Alec Issigonis, Car Designer and Engineer (b. 1906)
October 7 – Billy Daniels, American singer (b. 1915)
October 9 – Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
October 11 – Wayland Flowers, American puppeteer (b. 1939)
October 11 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
October 12 – Ken Murray, American actor (b. 1903)
October 12 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (b. 1895)
October 13 – Melvin Frank, American screenwriter and director (b. 1913)
October 15 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
October 18 – Frederick Ashton, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
October 19 – Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
October 22 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
October 27 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor (b. 1914)
October 31 – John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b. 1902)

November–December

John Carradine

Chico Mendes

November 1 – George J. Folsey, American cinematographer (b. 1898)
November 9 – John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
November 11 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
November 12 – Vet Boswell, American singer (b. 1911)
November 12 – Lyman Lemnitzer, American Army General (b. 1899)
November 13 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
November 15 – Mona Washbourne, British actress (b. 1903)
November 17 – Sheilah Graham, English-born gossip columnist (b. 1904)
November 19 – Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
November 21 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
November 22 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1902)
November 27 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
December 2 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
December 4 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
December 6 – Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
December 6 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, American actor (b. 1959)
December 10 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
December 16 – Sylvester, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
December 21 – Bob Steele, American actor (b. 1907)
December 21 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
December 22 – Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, aka Chico Mendes, Brazilian environmental activist, fought the logging of the Amazon, assassinated (b. 1944)
December 26 – John Loder, English actor (b. 1898)
December 26 – Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
December 27 – Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
December 27 – Jess Oppenheimer, American radio and television producer (b. 1913)
December 30 – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American artist (b. 1904)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
Chemistry – Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
Medicine – Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
Literature – Naguib Mahfouz
Peace – The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Maurice Allais

Templeton Prize

Inamullah Khan

Right Livelihood Award

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims / Inge Kemp Genefke (M.D.)
José Lutzenberger
John F. Charlewood Turner
Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.

Notes

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Console Hardware Releases

Sega Mega Drive released in Japan on October 29.

Game Releases

Namco releases World Stadium, Assault, which is the first game to use sprite scaling and massive sprite rotation, Assault Plus, Berabow Man, Marchen Maze, Bakutotsu Kijuutei, which is the sequel to Baraduke, Ordyne, Metal Hawk, World Court, Splatterhouse, which is the first game to get a parental advisory disclaimer, Mirai Ninja, Face Off and Phelios.
Electronic Arts releases John Madden Football for the Apple II, starting its highly successful line of American football games. It is also the first major football game to feature full 11-man teams.
Capcom releases Mega Man 2 in Japan, the highest-selling installment to date (August 2006) in the entire Mega Man franchise with a total of 1.5 million copies sold. It was honored in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Nintendo Games Ever list, coming in at number 33. As well, it is considered by many fans as the best game in the Classic series.
Pool of Radiance (SSI), the first of the "Gold Box" games, the first computer RPG based on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
Origin Systems releases Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny. This was the first game in the Ultima series to implement a time-of-day system with day/night cycles and daily schedules for non-player characters.
Altered Beast (Sega, arcade), later ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis where it was packaged with the console in North America and Europe.
Sega releases Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System, the first in the company's most successful series of RPGs.
Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros. 3 for the Famicom in Japan.

Key Events

Nintendo releases the Nintendo Power magazine in July.
New companies: KOEI Co., Ltd., Visual Concepts, Stormfront Studios, Walt Disney Computer Software
Defunct companies: Coleco Industries Inc.
Activision renamed to Mediagenic.
Nintendo vs. Camerica Ltd. lawsuit: Nintendo sues Camerica over the clone production of an Advantage joystick controller for the NES console.

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Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1985 1986 1987 - 1988 - 1989 1990 1991

1988 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Home video - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country, Metal) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television - Video gaming
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Marriages - Deaths - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar).

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1988

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize

5 Right Livelihood Award - Fields Medal

6 See also - Notes - External links

In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman-numeral digits (11). In the Chinese zodiac, it is the year of the rabbit until February 16 and the dragon for the rest of the year.

Events of 1988

January

January 1 - The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.
January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

January 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 140.58 points, or 6.85%, to close at 1,911.31 in a mini-crash.
January 13 - Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo dies in Taipei; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui becomes president.
January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Arabs are injured.
January 25 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
January 29 - The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.

February

February 3 - The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
February 12 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 13-February 28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
February 17 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (he is later killed by his captors).
February 21 - On his television show in Baton Rouge, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart confesses to an unspecified sin (an affair with prostitute Debra Murphree, as it turns out) and announces he will temporarily leave the pulpit.
February 24 - Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.
February 29 - A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in W.W. II deportations.

March

March 6 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a non deaf university president.
March 7 - Operation Flavius: The Special Air Services fatally shoot 3 unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
March 8 - Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
March 8 - U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday." The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
March 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
March 17 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
March 19 - British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "Corporals killings".
March 24 - An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
March 25 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
March 26 - U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
March 29 - African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.

April

The Iranian Frigate, IS Alvand, attacked by US Navy forces during Operation Praying Mantis.

April 4 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
April 5 - Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
April 10 - The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
April 10 - The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
April 11 - The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins 9 Oscars.
April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs.
April 14 - In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War.
April 16 - Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.
April 16 - In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
April 18 - United States Navy forces retaliate for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
April 25 - In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
April 28 - Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight; extraordinarily, the craft lands with only 1 fatality.
April 28 - The first National Willy Fog day (UK).
April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia. The exhibition runs for 6 months, hosting pavilions from over 70 countries and thrusting the city of Brisbane into the international spotlight.

May

May 4 - PEPCON disaster in Henderson: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
May 14 - Bus disaster near Carrollton: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg 30 years prior.
May 14 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1-0 at Wembley. The south-west Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies including 17 league titles.
May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than 8 years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
May 16 - A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16 - California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
May 31 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.

June

June 6 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom strips jockey Lester Piggott of his Order of the British Empire following his jailing for tax irregularities.
June 11 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
June 11 - Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
June 25 - The Netherlands defeats the Soviet Union 2-0 to win Euro 88.
June 28 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later).
June 29 - Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates 4 bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.

July

July 3 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.
July 6 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners.
July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record.
July 14 - Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
July 20 - The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U.S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.
July 31 - Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia. Famous rock mogul born in Wellington

August

Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini the leader of Pakistani Shia muslims was killed in Peshawar.
August 5 - The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
August 6-August 7 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action which took place during the night of August 6th and into the early morning of August 7th.
August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protestors in Burma, now known as "Myanmar", are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
August 9 - The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field, defeating the New York Mets, 6-4.
August 17 - The Pakistani president, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
August 18 - The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates George H.W. Bush for President and James "Dan" Quayle for Vice President of the United States of America.
August 19 - A truce begins in the Iran-Iraq war.
August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one-million lives lost.
August 25 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.
August 26 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.

The Ramstein airshow disaster at the moment of impact.

August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and three-hundred and forty-six injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

September

September 5 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
September 11 - In Estonia, 300 000 demonstrate for independence.
September 12 - Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
September 17-October 2 - The Summer Olympic Games are held in Seoul, South Korea.
September 22 - The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also July 6)
September 24-September 26 - Large, militant protests against the 1988 World Bank and IMF meetings take place in West Berlin.
September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

October

October 5 - Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
October 5 - Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite which sought to renew his mandate.
October 5 - In Omaha, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, the Republican party vice presidential nominee, Senator "Dan" Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960. His Democratic party opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The tremendously positive audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark solidified the reputation of Sen. Quayle as a political lightweight.
October 11 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
October 12 - Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
October 13 - In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of C.N.N., if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
October 15 - Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game One of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of five runs to four.
October 19 - The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan
October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
October 29 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had accumulated.
October 30 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
October 30 - Expo '88 in Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a six month spectacular.
October 30 - Formula One: Ayrton Senna clinches his first World Championship with a phenomenal drive in the Japanese Grand Prix, recovering from 16th place on the first lap to win the race and beat rival Alain Prost into second place.

November

November 1 - In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office.
November 3-November 5: Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate against former president Chun Doo Hwan.
November 8 - United States presidential election: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
November 11 - In Sacramento, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46.
November 15 - The very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
November 16 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections were held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
November 18 - War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
November 21 - Canadian federal election: Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada win a second majority government.
November 21 - Ted Turner Officially Buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into WCW or World Championship Wrestling.
November 22 - In Palmdale, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
November 23 - Former Korean president Chun Doo Hwan publicly apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.
November 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.

December

The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103

December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
December 2 - A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.
December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.
December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
December 12 - The Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.
December 20 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.
December 22 - Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.
December 31 - NHL player Mario Lemieux scores a goal in each of the five different ways possible in one game (even-strength, power-play, shorthanded, penalty shot, and empty-net)

Undated

TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed.
Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes.
The Labtec mouse was created in 1988.

Ongoing

Fictional

The following are references to year 1988 in fiction:

In the manga and anime Oh My Goddess, the adventure begins in 1988 when the Nordic Goddess Belldandy moves to Earth - specifically, to Japan - to be the personal guardian deity of young techie Keiichi Morisato.
In the tokusatsu movie Kamen Rider Den-O: I am Born!, a decisive battle to stop a rogue Kamen Rider from destroying all of time is set to the date of December 26, 1988.

**1988 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1988 MCMLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2741
Armenian calendar	1437 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar	144 – 145
Buddhist calendar	2532
Coptic calendar	1704 – 1705
Ethiopian calendar	1980 – 1981
Hebrew calendar	5748 – 5749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2043 – 2044
- Shaka Samvat	1910 – 1911
- Kali Yuga	5089 – 5090
Holocene calendar	11988
Iranian calendar	1366 – 1367
Islamic calendar	1408 – 1409
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 63 (昭和 63年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2648 (皇紀2648年)
Julian calendar	2033
Korean calendar	4321
Thai solar calendar	2531

Births

January-February

January 4 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian Fantasy Novelist
January 7 - Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
January 8 - Michael Mancienne, English footballer
January 9 - Glyn Wise, Welsh television/radio personality - runner-up, Big Brother 2006
January 10 - Michael Mcilorum, English rugby union player
January 12 - Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
January 12 - Andrew Lawrence, American actor
January 13 - Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess player
January 15 - Sonny Moore, American musician
January 16 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
January 16 - Mikalah Gordon, American television personality
January 22 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
January 25 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
January 25 - Daniel Haynes, English footballer
January 27 - Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
January 29 - Owen Garvan, Irish footballer
January 29 - Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish soccer player
February 4 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer
February 8 - Ryan Pinkston, American actor
February 12 - Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie, Romanian gymnast
February 14 - Eliska Amor, Spanish American actress
February 18 - Mark Davies, British footballer
February 18 - Shane Lyons, American actor
February 18 - Maiara Walsh, Brazilian actress
February 19 - Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian R&B singer
February 21 - Daniel Rose, English footballer
February 25 - Rúrik Gíslason, Icelandic footballer
February 26 - David Williams, Australian footballer
February 29 - Lena Gercke, German model

March-April

March 1 - Melissandre Fuentes, Andorra figure skater
March 1 - Katija Pevec, American actress
March 2 - Kathryn Blair, daughter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
March 2 - Vito Mannone, Italian footballer
March 2 - Kate Alexa, Australian singer
March 3 - Timur Gareev, Asian chess player
March 6 - Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
March 15 - Rebecca Moore, Miss Alabama USA
March 21 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
March 21 - Pat McCabe, Australian rugby union player
March 25 - Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
March 27 - Brenda Song, American actress
March 28 - Lacey Turner, English actress
March 31 - Hogan Ephraim, English football player
April 3 - Tim Krul, Dutch soccer player
April 5 - Daniela Luján, Mexican actress
April 5 - Asumi Nakata, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
April 6 - Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
April 6 - Mike Bailey, British actor
April 8 - Philip Dowling, British actor
April 10 - Haley Joel Osment, American actor
April 10 - Özgürcan Özcan, Turkish soccer player
April 10 - Travis Varcoe, Australian footballer
April 13 - Kallie Flynn Childress, American actress
April 15 - Emily Parr, 2007 UK Big Brother contestant
April 20 - Wade Oostendorp, Australian soccer player
April 23 - Erica Mer, American actress
April 25 - Sara Paxton, American actress
April 26 - Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (d. 2006)
April 29 - Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder
April 29 - Younha, Korean born singer

May-June

May 1 -Kristopher Tate, Founder, Chief Technologist of Zooomr
May 1 - Darryl Knights, English footballer
May 5 - Jessica Dubroff, American student pilot (d. 1996)
May 5 - Brooke Hogan, American reality star and singer
May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer
May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol 2004 singer
May 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress
May 18 - Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
May 19 - Lily Cole, Iconic English supermodel
May 23 - Christian Lorentzen, British heir
May 23 - Morgan Pressel, American golfer
May 24 - Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go player
May 25 - Adrián González, Spanish footballer
May 27 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
May 27 - Scott McGregor, English musician
May 28 - Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
May 28 - Meisa Kuroki, Japanese actress
June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
June 2 - Sergio Agüero, Argentine football (soccer) player
June 2 - Ayaka Saito, Japanese voice actor
June 7 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor
June 7 - Godwin Antwi, Ghana footballer
June 9 - Mae Whitman, American actress
June 11 - Gakky, Japanese model/actress
June 13 - Li Ya, Chinese gymnast
June 20 - Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
June 21 - Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball player
June 21 - Alejandro Ramirez, Costa Rica chess player
June 23 - Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
June 24 - Micah Richards, English footballer
June 25 - Amanda Dowler, British murder victim
June 26 - Amanda and Sam Marchant, 2007 UK Big Brother contestants
June 27 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
June 30 - Sean Marquette, American actor

July-August

July 1 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
July 1 - Joseph Groarke, British taekwondo expert
July 4 - Angelique Boyer, Mexican actress
July 4 - Princess Irina of Prussia
July 6 - Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Canadian actress
July 8 - Miguel Roque Farrero, Spanish footballer
July 12 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner, season 3
July 17 - Summer Bishil, American actress
July 22 - Constantin
July 23 - Paul Anderson, English footballer
July 25 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
July 28 - Ayla Brown, American singer and basketball player
July 31 - Brackin Karauria-Henry, Australian rugby league player
August 4 - Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
August 5 - Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
August 5 - Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
August 7 - Chris "Beanie" Wells, American football running back
August 8 - Princess Beatrice of York
August 8 - Flavia Bujor, French writer
August 8 - Jake Goldsbie, Canadian actor
August 8 - Jeff Weise, American murderer (d. 2005)
August 12 - Jose Tabata, Minor League Baseball player
August 12 - Leah Pipes, American actress
August 16 - Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan football (soccer) player
August 16 - Rumer Willis, American actress
August 17 - Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
August 17 - Brady Corbet, American actor
August 18 - Jack Hobbs, English footballer
August 19 - Travis Tedford, American actor
August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor
August 25 - Raymond Quinn, English singer and actor
August 26 - Princess Maria Laura
August 27 - Alexa Vega, American actress
August 28 - Ray Jones, English football player (d. 2007)

September-October

September 5 - Nuri Şahin, Turkish football (soccer) player
September 9 - Sana Saeed, Indian actress
September 10 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
September 11 - Angie Diaz, Australian actress
September 16 - Teddy Geiger, American singer
September 16 - Tempest Smith, American religious discrimination victim (d. 2001)
September 18 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
September 19 - Katie Bowden, American actress
September 20 - Aura Andreea Munteanu, Romanian gymnast
September 22 - Bethany Dillon, Christian contemporary music singer/songwriter
September 24 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
September 29 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
October 3 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
October 5 - Bobby Edner, American actor
October 6 - Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
October 7 - Stacy DuPree, American musician
October 7 - Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
October 10 - Cariba Heine, Australian Actress and performer
October 13 - Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
October 14 - Max Thieriot, American actor
October 15 - Carrie Finklea, American actress
October 15 - Aleksandra Szutenberg, Polish gymnast
October 19 - Carly Janiga, American gymnast
October 20 - Adam Butcher, Canadian actor
October 20 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
October 25 - Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
October 28 - Devon Murray, Irish actor
October 30 - Scott Dyleski, American murderer
October 31 - Brent Corrigan, American actor

November-December

November 1 - Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
November 2 - Lindze Letherman, American actress
November 4 - Harrison Foss, English actor
November 6 - Emma Stone, American actress
November 8 - Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
November 11 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
November 13 - Stephen Pollard, American musician
November 15 - Zena Grey, American actress
November 15 - Nikolas Besagno, American soccer player
November 19 - Patrick Kane, American professional hockey player
November 23 - Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
November 28 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress
December 2 - Alfred Enoch, British actor
December 2 - Edward Windsor
December 4 - Lisa Ingildeeva, Russian gymnast
December 5 - Ross Bagley, American actor
December 7 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
December 14 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
December 15 - Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
December 16 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
December 16 - Jacob Lensky, Canadian soccer player
December 19 - Victoria Ribeiro, British heir
December 22 - Eddy Vilard, Mexican actor
December 23 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
December 24 - Piyush Chawla, Indian cricketer
December 26 - Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model
December 27 - Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore)
December 29 - Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player

Unknown dates

Delanie Fitzpatrick, American actress
Ateqeh Rajabi, Iranian teenage offender (executed 2004)
Laura Ross, American chess player
Everlyn Sampi, Australian actor

For musicians born in 1988, see 1988 in music.

Deaths

January - March

January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
January 5 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
January 7 - Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
January 11 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912)
January 13 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
January 14 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
January 15 - Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
January 16 - Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
January 20 - Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902)
January 22 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
February 3 - Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
February 15 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
February 19 - René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
February 19 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
February 25 - Kurt Mahler, German born Australian mathematician (b. 1903)
March 1 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
March 5 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
March 7 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
March 9 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
March 10 - Andy Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
March 20 - Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor (b. 1908)
March 31 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

April - June

April 1 - Jim Jordan, radio show, classic old time radio (b. 1896)
April 3 - Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
April 12 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b. 1891)
April 12 - Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
April 15 - Kenneth Williams, British actor and raconteur (b. 1926)
April 17 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (b. 1900)
April 23 - Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
April 26 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
April 26 - Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
May 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b. 1907)
May 10 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, member of The Dubliners died of a brain hemorrhage.
May 11 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
May 12 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
May 16 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)
May 18 - Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
May 21 - Sammy Davis, American dancer (b. 1900)
May 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
May 27 - Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
June 22 - Dennis Day, Irish-American singer and radio and television personality (b. 1916)
June 25 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)

July - September

July 4 - Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
July 8 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
July 17 - Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
July 18 - Nico, singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress and Warhol socialite (b. 1938)
July 21 - Jack Clark, American television personality and Game Show host (b. 1921)
July 25 - Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
July 27 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
July 31 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
August 2 - Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet (b. 1938)
August 8 - Félix Leclerc, French-Canadian poet & singer (b. 1914)
August 8 - Alan Napier, American actor (b. 1903)
August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
August 9 - Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
August 11 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
August 12 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American musician/graffiti painter (b. 1960)
August 12 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
August 14 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
August 17 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (b. 1924)
August 27 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
September 1 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
September 5 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
September 12 - Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr. Men series (b. 1935)
September 16 - Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1893)
September 18 - Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian Azari poet (b. 1906)
September 21 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)

October - December

October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
October 9 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
October 12 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (b. 1895)
October 15 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
October 19 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
October 22 - Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
October 27 - Charles Hawtrey, English Comic Actor (b. 1914)
October 31 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b. 1902)
November 9 - John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
November 11 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
November 13 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
November 19 - Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
November 27 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
December 6 - Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
December 16 - Sylvester James, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
December 21 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
December 26 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)

Nobel prizes

Templeton Prize

Inamullah Khan

Right Livelihood Award

International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke
José Lutzenberger
John F. Charlewood Turner
Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.

People of the year 1988 at Familypedia

2 people were born in 1988

	Father	Mother	Age mother at birth
Peter Paul Johann Rindler (1988-)	Peter Paul Rindler (1957-)	Susanne Rindler (1958-)
Peter Paul Johann Rindler (1988-) (.de)	Peter Paul Rindler (1957-)	Susanne Rindler (1958-)

0 children were born to the 0 women born in 1988

12 people died in 1988

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Doris Bell Everingham (1907-1988)	Sydney Ernest Everingham (1865-1944)	Elizabeth Marion Bulley (1871-1936)	8181
Sherman Hartzell Foor (1897-1988)	Jacob Hartzell Foor (1860-1940)	Mary A Hinish (1855-1899)	9191
Stella Lillian Fricker (1927-1988)	Unknown Fricker (?-?)	Unknown Dunbar (?-?)	6161
Howard William Kolstee (1931-1988)	Albert Kolstee (1879-1937)	Louise Barbara Trump (1900-1985)	5757
Arthur Thomas Samuel Marsden (1901-1988)	Charles Augustus Marsden (1863-1944)	Elizabeth Baker (1857-1939)	8787
Edward Leslie Martin (1906-1988)	Edward Martin (c1881-1949)	Kate Olrich (1886-1968)	8282
Neil Henry Noakes (1915-1988)	Edgar Henry Coleman Noakes (1884-1947)	Lillian Grace Webber (1885-1960)	7373
Bernice Amelia Pickard (1889-1988)	Benjamin Abraham Pickard (1838-1916)	Lillian Rappole (1860-1927)	9999
Amelia Elizabeth Mary Rice (1899-1988)	Albert Rice (?-?)	Emily Alice Marsden Clyburn (1873-1936)	8989
Ivy Irene Staples (1911-1988)	Albert Staples (1877-1942)	Ellen Mary Ann Pereira (1879-1949)	7777
Lorraine R. Winder (1911-1988)	Edward J. Winder (1883-1957)	Catheryn Unknown (1886-?)	7777
Sewall Green Wright (1889-1988)	Philip Green Wright (1860-1934)	Elizabeth Quincy Sewall (1865-1952)	9999

202 people lived in 1988

	Father	Mother
Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)	Carl David Anderson (1878)	Emma Adolfina Ajaxson (1878)
Adella May Anthoney (1907-1990)	Charles Anthoney (c1867-1955)	Esther Louisa Long (1871-1946)
Ruby Apps (1906-1991)	William Apps (1861-1941)	Olive Mary Hannah Crouch (1877-1926)
Grace Enid Baglin (1933-2006)	Edward William Burgess Baglin (1906-1969)	Florence Eveline Jenner (1901-1994)
Marion Zena Baker (1908-1996)	William Josiah Baker (1875-1957)	Lydia Jessie Tracey (1877-1964)
James Edward Purcell Baldwin (1905-1990)	John Henry Baldwin (1877-1948)	Agnes Agatha Purcell (1875-1948)
Arthur Allan Bang (1922-2004)	Hans Bang (1897-1972)	Clara Anna Bertha Andersen (1897-1968)
Geertje Beentjes (1907-1991)	Johannes Beentjes (?-?)	Maria Catharine de Boer (?-?)
Donald E. Beers (1923-1998)	Pearl A. Beers (1888-1962)	Mary B. Nichols (1895-1960)
Eleanor C. Beers (1916-2004)	Pearl A. Beers (1888-1962)	Mary B. Nichols (1895-1960)
Ingrid of Sweden (1910-2000)	Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973)	Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920)
Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911-2004)	Bernhard zur Lippe (1872-1934)	Armgard von Sierstorpff-Cramm (1883-1971)
May Harriet Bowden (1906-1994)	George Bowden (1859-1943)	Emma Jane May (1861-1947)
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002)	Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855-1944)	Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862-1938)
Alice Edith Brand (c1905-1992)	George James Brand (c1862-c1935)	Augusta Christina Griffiths (c1863-c1942)
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4 people were married in 1988.

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Sarah Louise Heath (1964)	Todd Mitchell Palin (1964)
William Beveridge Kendall (1909-1997)	Harriet Gladys Bragg (1914-1987)+Helena Mae Linder (1911-2002)
Rockford Duane Lhotka (1965)	Teresa Dawn Cole (1967)
James Robert Bruce Ogilvy (1964)	Julia Caroline Rawlinson (1965)

There were 0 military battles in 1988.

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1985 1986 1987 - 1988 - 1989 1990 1991

1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

1 Births
2 Deaths
3 Events
4 Nobel prizes
5 Films released
6 Hit songs
7 New books

Births

January 12 - Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian singer
February 29 - Lena Gercke, German model
April 29 - Jonathan Toews, Canadian Professional ice hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks.
July 16 - Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
August 25 - Alexandra Burke, British singer
October 15 - Mesut Oezil, German footballer
November 19 - Patrick Kane, American professional ice hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks
November 25 - Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress

Deaths

January 5 – Pete Maravich, basketball player (b. 1947)
February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
March 10 – Andy Gibb, singer (b. 1958)
September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (b. 1911)
December 6 – Roy Orbison, singer (b. 1936)

Events

Ankst music label founded.
Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
February 13 – Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".
February 17 – A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video. The boy suffered burns over ten percent of his body. Mötley Crüe issued a statement saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.
March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
April 19 – Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California
May 1 – Citing the 1st Amendment, a judge drops all charges filed against singer Billy Joel. Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy in which he called Powers a "creep".
July 1 – Quartetto Cetra's last concert.
September 16 - rapper Eazy-E releases his debut album Eazy-Duz-It.
November 1 – Bad Religion releases Suffer, which is considered one of the band's best known works in the history of punk music, along with its follow-up No Control, which came out a year later.
Hurricane Gilbert strikes the Caribbean, Mexico and south Texas.
November 24 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres.
December 7 - A powerful earthquake hits Armenia.
December 21 - A Pan-Am airplane explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing more than 270 people.
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.

Nobel prizes

Films released

The Great Outdoors
Rambo III
Willow
Young Guns
The Thin Blue Line
Die Hard
Cocktail
The Cat Came Back
Twins
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
My Neighbor Totoro
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Hit songs

"Tell It To My Heart" – Taylor Dayne
"New Sensation" – INXS
"I Should Be So Lucky" – Kylie Minogue
"Kokomo" – The Beach Boys
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" – Bobby McFerrin
"Heaven Is A Place On Earth" – Belinda Carlie
"Simply Irristable" – Robert Palmer
"Man in the Mirror" – Michael Jackson
"Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" – Billy Ocean
"Anything for You" – Gloria Estefan
"Saved By Love" – Amy Grant
"Lead Me On" – Amy Grant
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" – Poison
"Never Gonna Give You Up" – Rick Astley
"Look Away" – Chicago
"Johnny B. Goode" – Judas Priest
"One More Try" – George Michael
"Roll With It" – Steve Winwood
"Sweet Child O' Mine" – Guns N' Roses
"Theme from S-Express" – S-Express
"Mountain Song" – Jane's Addiction
"Got My Mind Set On You" – George Harrison
"1-2-3" – Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
"Forever Young" – Rod Stewart
"Is this Love" – Whitesnake
"I Get Weak" – Belinda Carlisle
"The Promise" – When In Rome
"When You Put Your Heart In It" – Kenny Rogers

New books

Alaska – James A. Michener
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse – Lou Mollgaard
Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Butcher – Alina Reyes
Cabal – Clive Barker
Candlelight Spells – Gerina Dunwich
The Cardinal of the Kremlin – Tom Clancy
Cat's Eye – Margaret Atwood
The Coming of the King – Nikolai Tolstoy
Curriculum (poems) – Grazyna Miller
The Dark Green Tunnel – Allan W. Eckert
The Fifth Child – Doris Lessing
Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch – Alanna Nash
The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
The Icarus Agenda – Robert Ludlum
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915 – Miranda Seymour
The Sands of Time – Sidney Sheldon
Scorpius – John Gardner
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
Sourcery – Terry Pratchett
Tapestry – Belva Plain
Til We Meet Again – Judith Krantz
The Toynbee Convector – Ray Bradbury
Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett
Zoya – Danielle Steelkrc:1988 джыл

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